{"id":70018,"date":"2015-08-07T17:56:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T21:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=70018"},"modified":"2015-08-07T17:56:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T21:56:13","slug":"european-parliament-member-calls-eu-defund-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/european-parliament-member-calls-eu-defund-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"European Parliament member calls for EU to defund Planned Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-67451\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/center-for-medical-progress-planned-parenthood-_4074235482570710431_n-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"center-for-medical-progress-planned-parenthood-_4074235482570710431_n\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/center-for-medical-progress-planned-parenthood-_4074235482570710431_n-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/center-for-medical-progress-planned-parenthood-_4074235482570710431_n.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Alliance Defending Freedom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adfmedia.org\/News\/PRDetail\/9725\">reports<\/a> that disgust for Planned Parenthood\u2019s fetal organ harvesting activities has gone international.<\/p>\n<p>European Parliament member Miroslav Mikol\u00e1\u0161ik has written to the European Commission, calling on the body to wash its hands of the abortion giant.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that Planned Parenthood is \u201ca major recipient of EU funds for development aid,\u201d he asks if the commission is \u201caware of this practice and the video evidence produced by the Centre for Medical Progress, which points to the direct involvement of Planned Parenthood abortion facilities in illegal trafficking of human body parts,\u201d and will \u201ccondemn this practice and suspend all direct or indirect funding of Planned Parenthood facilities, projects or programmes until such time as US authorities have carried out a thorough investigation of the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He also would like to know whether the body will oppose Planned Parenthood\u2019s request to join the Commission\u2019s \u201clawsuit against the ONE OF US European Citizen initiative,\u201d a movement <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneofus.eu\/our-mission\/\">dedicated<\/a> to \u201cunconditional recognition of the inherent and inalienable human dignity as a source of human freedoms and citizens\u2019 rights,\u201d and legal protection of that life in all stages, including \u201cconception and gestation, childhood, maternity, illness, disability, old age and end of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ADF notes that the \u201cEuropean Commission typically has up to six weeks to provide answers to questions that MEPs submit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alliance Defending Freedom reports that disgust for Planned Parenthood\u2019s fetal organ harvesting activities has gone international. European Parliament member Miroslav Mikol\u00e1\u0161ik has written to the European Commission, calling on the body to wash its hands of the abortion giant. Noting that Planned Parenthood is \u201ca major recipient of EU funds for development aid,\u201d he asks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":70021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[4178,19,4176,4603,1500,1604,4604,4175,14],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>European Parliament member calls for EU to defund Planned Parenthood - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"PP&#039;s fetal parts scandal has gone international. 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